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NEW: Biden Mentioned In JFK Files, Called A ‘Traitor’
A disputed letter allegedly signed by the son of John F. Kennedy and calling former President Joe Biden a “traitor” has resurfaced in the wake of an unredacted release of files surrounding the 35th president’s assassination.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the release of all files held by the FBI, CIA, and other clandestine agencies containing information about JFK’s murder on November 22nd, 1963.
A news release on March 18th stated, “In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection are released.”
Within the files reemerged evidence that John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., or JFK Jr., in 1994 sent a letter to then-U.S. Sen. Biden that starts, “Dear Sen. Biden: You are a traitor…” An FBI memo describing the letter from Worcester, Massachusetts, uses the term “UNSUB,” or unsubstantiated, meaning investigators ultimately ruled out the possibility that the late president’s son was the author.
According to WION News, the letter was delivered by an FBI agent to Biden’s office in the Capitol building on September 8th, 1994. It was addressed to “Sen. Joseph Biden (D.-Delaware), US Capitol Building, US Senate, Washington DC 20515.”
“Accompanying handwritten /hand printed letter dated 8/26/94, beginning “Dear Sen. Biden: You are a traitor…” and bearing the signature “John F. Kennedy Jr.,” the FBI memo goes on.
Hundreds of previously unreleased documents were made public on Tuesday, fulfilling President Trump’s promise to disclose everything the government has held as part of its investigation into JFK’s murder. For decades, conspiracy theories have percolated the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone killer and that members of the CIA participated in the assassination plot.
“You got a lot of reading,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything.”
Although most pages contained no blackouts, the aged photocopies were distorted in some places and difficult to read, according to online investigators.
Almost immediately, discussions about the JFK files centered on Gary Underhill, a former CIA agent who fled Washington, D.C., hours after JFK was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. He took shelter at a friend’s home in New Jersey, where he frantically claimed that members of the intelligence community were behind the shooting.
Six months later, Underhill was found dead of a gunshot wound in his apartment. Investigators ruled his death a suicide.
Other documents released Tuesday link mobsters in Chicago to the assassination, another unverified accusation that has kept sleuths guessing as they sort through the new files. ABC7 Chicago reported on Wednesday that some files, citing transcripts of wiretaps, linked mob bosses and rogue CIA agents to efforts to train Cuban militiamen.